Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kung, a minus 14 handicapper, was the only player to showcase a defense-minded style. Much like Bobby Riggs, Kung chopped, lobbed, and "out-Englished" his opponents with an expertly applied backspin...
...returned to the Wagler incident for more "in-depth" coverage. Saturday's papers was a battle of one-ups-manship to see which paper could offer the most colorful background story of the Wagler death, including a simulation of Wagler's one block run to the liquor store--minus the flames but with a vivacious model as Wagler...
This Fall Radcliffe enters its second year under President Horner's leadership, sporting a new look in its upper echelons. Structurally it is now minus two offices, plus two new ones and plus even more new faces. On balance, the new lineup completes a transition from the days when Mary I. Bunting was president to the era of Horner's tenure. The new group will lead Radcliffe toward fulfilling the many roles it has claimed for itself...
...stormy faced when he lost. And Mrs. Stockton, sitting anonymous in General Admissions, tried to hide the tears she cried. A half hour later Connors, high on his success, is surrounded in the pressroom. The Stockton family, minus Mr., waits for Dickie on the clubhouse porch, looking out over the grass now singed dusky by the sun's going down. He barely acknowledges them as he trudges by, towel draped around his neck for a shower. How do you greet a beaten Stockton when all the customary reassurances, the buck ups, the next times, the good fights, come...
...most departments, a late thesis means a penalty of one full distinction. A Social Studies thesis--more than a month overdue--which received a summa minus was dropped down to a magna plus. Few undergraduates complain about penalties for extremely late theses, although there is always annual speculation about what might happen if a student misses his 5 p.m. deadline by 12 minutes...